Dr Jeremy Niven

Article

Chelidoni, Olga, Berry, Clio, Easterbrook, Matthew, Chapman, Laura, Banerjee, Robin, Valeix, Sophie and Niven, Jeremy (2022) Predictors of Covid-19 anxiety in UK university students. Journal of Further and Higher Education. pp. 1-14. ISSN 0309-877X

Rossoni, Sergio and Niven, Jeremy (2022) Braking slows passive flexion during goal-directed movements of a small limb. Current Biology. pp. 1-20. ISSN 0960-9822

Yarwood, Elisabeth, Drees, Claudia, Niven, Jeremy E and Schuett, Wiebke (2021) Sex-specific covariance between metabolic rate, behaviour and morphology in the ground beetle Carabus hortensis. PeerJ – the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, 9. a12455 1-19. ISSN 2167-8359

Hazell, Cassie M, Niven, Jeremy E, Chapman, Laura, Roberts, Paul E, Cartwright-Hatton, Sam, Valeix, Sophie and Berry, Clio (2021) Nationwide assessment of the mental health of UK doctoral researchers. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8 (1). a305 1-9. ISSN 2662-9992

Berry, Clio, Niven, Jeremy E and Hazell, Cassie M (2021) Personal, social and relational predictors of UK postgraduate researcher mental health problems. BJPsych Open, 7 (6). a205 1-11. ISSN 2056-4724

Goulard, Roman, Buehlmann, Cornelia, Niven, Jeremy E, Graham, Paul and Webb, Barbara (2021) A unified mechanism for innate and learned visual landmark guidance in the insect central complex. PLoS Computational Biology, 17 (9). a1009383 1-30. ISSN 1553-734X

Yarwood, Elisabeth, Drees, Claudia, Niven, Jeremy E, Gawel, Marisa and Schuett, Wiebke (2021) Sex differences in morphology across an expanding range edge in the flightless ground beetle, Carabus hortensis. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (15). pp. 9949-9957. ISSN 2045-7758

Hazell, Cassie M, Berry, Clio, Niven, Jeremy E and Mackenzie, Jay-Marie (2021) Understanding suicidality and reasons for living amongst Doctoral Researchers: a thematic analysis of qualitative U-DOC survey data. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1473-3145

Berry, Clio, Niven, Jeremy E, Chapman, Laura A, Valeix, Sophie, Roberts, Paul E and Hazell, Cassie Marie (2021) A mixed mixed-methods investigation of mental health stigma, absenteeism and presenteeism among UK postgraduate researchers. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. ISSN 2398-4686

Goulard, Roman, Buehlmann, Cornelia, Niven, Jeremy E, Graham, Paul and Webb, Barbara (2020) A motion compensation treadmill for untethered wood ants (Formica rufa): evidence for transfer of orientation memories from free-walking training. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 223 (24). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0022-0949

Stewart, Alan J A, Perl, Craig D and Niven, Jeremy E (2020) Artificial lighting impairs mate attraction in a nocturnal capital breeder. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223 (19). pp. 1-5. ISSN 0022-0949

Rossi, Marta, Ott, Swidbert R and Niven, Jeremy E (2020) Malpighamoeba infection compromises fluid secretion and P-glycoprotein detoxification in Malpighian tubules. Scientific Reports, 10. a15953. ISSN 2045-2322

Buehlmann, Cornelia, Wozniak, Beata, Goulard, Roman, Webb, Barbara, Graham, Paul and Niven, Jeremy E (2020) Mushroom bodies are required for learnt visual navigation, but not for innate visual behaviour, in ants. Current Biology, 30. pp. 1-6. ISSN 0960-9822

Berry, C, Valeix, S, Niven, J E, Chapman, L, Roberts, P E and Hazell, C M (2020) Hanging in the balance: conceptualising doctoral researcher mental health as a dynamic balance across key tensions characterising the PhD experience. International Journal of Educational Research, 102. a101575 1-16. ISSN 0883-0355

David Fernandes, A Sofia and Niven, Jeremy E (2020) Lateralization of short- and long-term visual memories in an insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287. p. 20200677. ISSN 0962-8452

Rossoni, Sergio and Niven, Jeremy E (2020) Prey speed influences the speed and structure of the raptorial strike of a ‘sit-and-wait’ predator. Biology Letters, 16. pp. 1-6. ISSN 1744-9561

Rossi, Marta, De Battasti, Davide De and Niven, Jeremy Edward (2019) Transepithelial transport of P-glycoprotein substrate by the malpighian tubules of the desert locust. PLoS ONE, 14 (10). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1932-6203

Castillo, Armando E, Rossoni, Sergio and Niven, Jeremy E (2018) Matched short-term depression and recovery encodes interspike interval at a central synapse. Scientific Reports, 8. a13629. ISSN 2045-2322

Heras, Francisco J H, Vähäsöyrinki, Mikko and Niven, Jeremy E (2018) Modulation of voltage-dependent K+ conductances in photoreceptors trades off investment in contrast gain for bandwidth. PLoS Computational Biology, 14 (11). pp. 1-33. ISSN 1553-734X

D Fernandes, A Sofia, Buckley, C L and Niven, J E (2018) Visual classical conditioning in wood ants. Journal of Visualized Experiments (140). a58357 1-8. ISSN 1940-087X

Perl, Craig D and Niven, Jeremy E (2018) Metabolic rate scaling, ventilation patterns and respiratory water loss in red wood ants: activity drives ventilation changes, metabolic rate drives water loss. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (18). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0022-0949

Nicholls, Elizabeth, Fowler, Robert, Niven, Jeremy E, Gilbert, James D and Goulson, Dave (2017) Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis. PeerJ, 5. e3417. ISSN 2167-8359

Heras, Francisco J H, Anderson, John, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2017) Voltage-dependent K+ channels improve the energy efficiency of signalling in blowfly photoreceptors. Interface, 14 (129). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1742-5689

Perl, Craig D, Rossoni, Sergio and Niven, Jeremy E (2017) Conservative whole-organ scaling contrasts with highly labile suborgan scaling differences among compound eyes of closely related Formica ants. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (6). pp. 1663-1673. ISSN 2045-7758

Niven, Jeremy E (2016) Neuronal energy consumption: biophysics, efficiency and evolution. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 41. pp. 129-135. ISSN 0959-4388

Heras, Francisco J H, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2016) Shunt peaking in neural membranes. Interface, 13 (124). ISSN 1742-5662

Simões, Patricio M V, Ott, Swidbert O and Niven, Jeremy E (2016) Environmental adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, and associative learning in insects: the desert locust as a case study. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 56 (5). pp. 914-924. ISSN 1540-7063

Bell, Adrian and Niven, Jeremy (2016) Strength of forelimb lateralization predicts motor errors in an insect. Biology Letters, 12 (9). ISSN 1744-9561

Perl, Craig D and Niven, Jeremy E (2016) Colony-level differences in the scaling rules governing wood ant compound eye structure. Scientific Reports, 6. p. 24204. ISSN 2045-2322

Perl, Craig D and Niven, Jeremy E (2016) Differential scaling within an insect compound eye. Biology Letters, 12 (3). ISSN 1744-9561

Fernandes, A Sofia D, Philippides, Andrew, Collett, Tom S and Niven, Jeremy E (2015) Acquisition and expression of memories of distance and direction in navigating wood ants. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218 (22). pp. 3580-3588. ISSN 0022-0949

Niven, Jeremy E and Bell, Adrian T A (2015) Individual-level, context-dependent handedness in the desert locust. Current Biology, 24 (10). R382-R383. ISSN 0960-9822

Sengupta, Biswa, Laughlin, Simon Barry and Niven, Jeremy (2014) Consequences of converting graded to action potentials upon neural information coding and energy efficiency. PLoS Computational Biology, 10 (1). e1003439. ISSN 1553-734X

Sengupta, Biswa, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2013) Balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents promote efficient coding and metabolic efficiency. PLoS Computational Biology, 9 (10). e1003263. ISSN 1553-734X

Sengupta, Biswa, Faisal, A Aldo, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2013) The effect of cell size and channel density on neuronal information encoding and energy efficiency. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 33. pp. 1465-1473. ISSN 0271-678X

Magny, Emile G, Pueyo-Marques, Jose, Pearl, Frances M G, Cespedes, Miguel Angel, Niven, Jeremy E, Bishop, Sarah A and Couso, Juan Pablo (2013) Conserved regulation of cardiac calcium uptake by peptides encoded in small open reading frames. Science, 341. pp. 1116-1120. ISSN 0036-8075

Perge, János A, Niven, Jeremy, Mugnaini, Enrico, Balasubramanian, Vijay and Sterling, Peter (2012) Why do axons differ in caliber? Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (2). pp. 626-638. ISSN 1529-2401

Niven, Jeremy E, Ott, Swidbert R and Rogers, Stephen M (2012) Visually targeted reaching in horse-head grasshoppers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279. pp. 3697-3705. ISSN 0962-8452

Sengupta, Biswa, Stemmler, Martin, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2010) Action potential energy efficiency varies among neuron types in vertebrates and invertebrates. PLoS Computational Biology, 6 (7). e1000840. ISSN 1553-734X

Niven, Jeremy E, Buckingham, Christian J, Lumley, Sheila, Cuttle, Matthew F and Laughlin, Simon B (2010) Visual targeting of forelimbs in ladder-walking locusts. Current Biology, 20 (1). pp. 86-91. ISSN 0960-9822

Seid, Marc A, Scheffrahn, Rudolf H and Niven, Jeremy E (2008) The rapid mandible strike of a termite soldier. Current Biology, 18 (22). R1049-50. ISSN 0960-9822

Niven, Jeremy E, Anderson, John C and Laughlin, Simon B (2007) Fly photoreceptors demonstrate energy-information trade-offs in neural coding. PLoS Biology, 5. pp. 828-840. ISSN 1544-9173

Niven, Jeremy E and Scharlemann, Jörn P W (2005) Do insect metabolic rates at rest and during flight scale with body mass? Biology Letters, 1 (3). pp. 346-349. ISSN 1744-9561

Niven, JE (2004) Channelling evolution canalization and the nervous system. PLoS Biology, 2 (1). pp. 22-24. ISSN 1544-9173

Conference Proceedings

Calcraft, Paul Richard Thomas, Bell, Adrian T, Husbands, Phil, Philippides, Andrew and Niven, Jeremy E (2016) The evolution of handedness: why are ant colonies left- and right-handed? Published in: Biomath Communications: Proceedings BIOMATH’16.. 3 (1) ISSN 2367-5233

Recent Publications:

Perge JA, Niven JE, Mugnaini E, Balasubramanian V, Sterling P (2012). Why do axons differ in diameter? J. Neurosci. 32: 626-638.

Stemmler, M, Sengupta, B, Laughlin, SB, Niven JE (2011). Energetically optimal action potentials. Neural Information Processing Systems. (in press).

Quesada R, Triana E, Vargas G, Douglass J, Seid M, Niven JE, Eberhard WG, Wcislo WT (2011). The allometry of CNS size and consequences of miniaturization in orb-weaving spiders. Arth. Struct. Devel. 40: 521-529.

Simões PMV, Ott SR, Niven JE (2011). Associative olfactory learning in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria. J. Exp. Biol., 214: 2495-2503.

Sengupta B, Stemmler M, Laughlin SB, Niven JE (2010). Action potential energy efficiency varies among neuron types in vertebrates and invertebrates. PLoS Comput. Biol. 6: e1000840.

Sengupta B, Laughlin SB, Niven JE (2010). Comparison of Langevin and Markov channel noise models for neuronal signal generation. Phys. Rev. E 81: 011918.

Niven JE, Buckingham CJ, Lumley S, Cuttle MF, Laughlin SB (2010). Visual targeting of forelimbs in ladder-walking locusts. Curr. Biol. 20: 86-91.

Niven JE. Chapter 118. The Nervous System: Evolution in Relation to Behavior. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2010).

Niven JE, Chittka L (2010). Re-use of neurons in the development, evolution and function of neural circuits in invertebrate nervous systems. Behav. Brain Sci. 33: 285

Chittka L, Niven JE (2009). Are bigger brains better? Curr. Biol. 19: R995-1008.

Seid MA, Scheffrahn RH, Niven JE (2008). The rapid mandible strike of a termite soldier. Curr. Biol. 18: R1049-50.

Niven JE, Laughlin SB (2008). Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems. J. Exp. Biol. 211: 1792-804.

Niven JE, Graham CM, Burrows M (2008). Diversity and evolution of the insect ventral nerve cord. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 53: 253-71.

Niven JE, Anderson JC, Laughlin SB (2007). Fly photoreceptors demonstrate energy-information trade-offs in neural coding. PLoS Biol. 5: 828-840. Listed in Faculty of 1000.

Niven JE (2007). Brains, islands and evolution: breaking all the rules. Trends Ecol. Evol. 22: 57-9.